itertools to iter transition (WAS: Pre-PEP: Dictionary accumulator methods)

[Greg Ewing]

Ville Vainio wrote:

> The issue that really bothers me here is bloating the builtin
> space. We already have an uncomfortable amount of builtin
> functions.

Maybe what we're really after here is the notion of a
builtin module that's pre-imported into the builtin
namespace.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg